Unfortunately, my generation got on there and they will never fucking leave. It’s like the previous generation with AOL.

The dude is worried about an apocalypse that he’s causing. A poor taste in architecture is the least of his problems.

No, you can’t have bigotry against software. At least, not currently.

Maybe in the future somebody will figure out how to make a sapient AI, like you see in science fiction, and then you can say that somebody is bigoted against it. We don’t have sapient AI, though, so this is simply prejudice.

Humans have been hating software since the dawn of computing. Do you get upset when people say bad things about Windows? And if not, why is it different with LLMs?

Reading a book or watching a movie requires engaging your brain in some way. This guy isn’t engaging his brain in any way whatsoever. He’s completely offloaded this onto the AI.

However, this is still better than just plopping your kids in front of the TV, because at least they have to use their imagination in some way.

Why would you create something before there was demand for it? Seems completely backwards.

They celebrated when they turned 18…and then never spoke of them again.

I was wondering what happened to the Olsen twins after they turned 18. Apparently, they turned into ringwraiths.

agentic

Yeah, we created a new buzzword that means the same thing as “autonomous”.

Okay, well, it’s actually less good than autonomous, because you have to babysit the thing to make sure that it doesn’t shit the bed. But totally worth it! Because it’s agentic!

Nobody says “yea”. Unless they’re voting. Or talking about the size of something.

The reason why sports are segregated by gender is because men can’t stand to lose to women.

Think about this. Why are even non-contact sports segregated? Tennis? Why?!

Even chess is segregated by gender. Chess!

The only way that trans people make sense is if gender and sex are two separate things.

How is it that I, a straight man, am attracted to trans women if they’re actually men? Does that mean that I’m bisexual? No, because I’m not attracted to cis men. (Or trans men, for that matter.) Think about the pretzel logic you have to get into if you have a worldview like JK Rowling. “Bisexual for femininity” isn’t a thing. Straight men are attracted to women. Cis women, trans women. Women. Period.

Now, I know that it’s about more than attraction, but this is what got me to start thinking about this. Another was this thought experiment somebody gave me: “If your dick got chopped off, would you instantly turn into a woman?” No, of course not.

At this point a gender essentialist would probably start talking about chromosomes. Chromosomes determine what your gender is! Nobody uses this as a definition for gender in any practical way, though. When you’re looking at somebody from across the room, you don’t know what their chromosomes are. How many of your friends do you have chromosomal data on? How about the people you’ve dated? Are they going to use chromosomes to determine which bathroom you can use? Or which team you can play on? This is incoherent. It’s like basing gender upon whether you have an even or odd number of atoms in your body.

I had one person tell me that a trans woman would be unsuitable for marriage because she couldn’t give birth. I’m not interested in having children, but setting that aside…would they say the same thing about a cis woman who’s infertile? Every single one of these arguments is incoherent.

The one criticism that I felt had some truth to it is that it looks like it was designed by a 14-year-old boy. I think it appeals to my inner 14-year-old who wants neon icons and DRAGONS. But if Dr460nized is too garish for you and you want something more sophisticated, now there’s Mokka.

Why wouldn’t I want to reboot?

I use Garuda, and it hasn’t borked for me in years. I update it about once a week.

Sharing is ethically good. There needs to be more sharing in the world.

Calling it “piracy” is corporate framing. Piracy is theft: you’re stealing from somebody else’s boat. That isn’t what’s happening here. This is filesharing.

I’m just glad my religion doesn’t tell me what I can download.

I don’t. I’m still an agnostic. I just don’t tell people that if I think they won’t understand and it isn’t worth the time explaining it to them.

The CRA doesn’t use the word “and”. It’s “or”.

manifesting, promoting, sustaining, or increasing belief

Meaning it’s optional. Also, “promoting” is quite vague. TST doesn’t qualify in any case, though, because what are they “manifesting, promoting, sustaining, or increasing belief” of?

a religion’s three key attributes, which are: faith in a higher unseen power such as a God, Supreme Being, or Entity; worship or reverence; and a particular and comprehensive system of doctrines and observances

So yeah. Non-theistic Satanism doesn’t apply. We have reverence, we have doctrines and observances…we do not have a Supreme anything.

TST primarily operates in the USA, so the IRS code is much more relevant. Let’s see which part of this applies:

advancement of religion

That’s it? “Advancement” is even more vague than “promoting”! I can do a lot of things that “advance” my religion without trying to recruit people. Adding more programs to my congregation, for example. Hey, now we have a book club! Satanism has been advanced.

In fact, I think that most Satanists would say that trying to recruit wouldn’t be advancement at all…it would be a big step backwards.

How are those not embracing the material world? The 5th tenet makes it explicitly materialist.

The leaders aren’t sitting around meditating. They’re in court, doing material things.